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Social Protection/Labour Market/Economic Nexus Prof Alex van den Heever Chair in the Field of Social Security [email protected]

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Social Protection/Labour Market/Economic Nexus

Prof Alex van den HeeverChair in the Field of Social Security

[email protected]

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Social protection regimes are integral to achieving dynamic adaptable economies

• Modern social security regimes need to combine income protection with managing economic transitions in a fast changing world

• Paradigms that assume a trade-off between protection and economic vitality are counterproductive

• This presentation will outline a complete social security regime designed to energise an economy at any level of development

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Population

Labour supply

Producers

Income flow

Expenditure flow

EmployedGovernment

Health and social services

Health and Pensions

Social Assistance

Contribution subsidies

Tax subsidiesRisk pooling

TaxTax

Social Protection

Social Protection

Social Protection

Social protection restructures the relationship between households and economic production

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Policy framework

Social security

Labour market

Economy

CapabilitiesActive labour market policy

Conditions of service

determination policy

Industrial policy

Tax regimeRegulatory governance

Training and skills development

Education

Healthcare

Early childhood

development

Disability

Basic family incomes

Loss of employment

Healthcare

DisabilityPensions

Non-contributory Contributory

Pensions

Welfare services

Loss of employment

Economic growth

Special employment programmes

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Retirement provisionLoss of support protection

Disability protectionUnemployment protection

Paternity benefits

Policy nexus

Social Assistance

Earnings-related income protection

Pregnancy supportEarly childhood supportChild supportCaregiver supportUnemployment supportDisability supportOld age support

Household incomelow high

Labour market flexibility• Mobility (skills development)• Job placement• Return to work• Hire / fire

Industrial policy

Special employment

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Institutional Architecture

Policy development

Integrated policy delivery

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Participative consultative structure for integrated and

coordinated policies

Integrating strategic social security institutions

Active governance

Social security

Labour activation

RegistriesEmployer linkagesBenefit management

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